Justin Owen Rawlins is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Film Studies at the University of Tulsa. He is also an Academic Associate in Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. He is the author of Imagining the Method (University of Texas Press, 2024). His work has also appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Velvet Light Trap, Celebrity Studies, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, as well as Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (forthcoming 2025).